Improvement in telegraph-wire couplings



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE STEPHEN M. BARBOUR AND FRANK A. PAGE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA; SAID PAGE ASSIGNOR TO SAID BARBOUR.

IMPROVEMENT IN TELEGRAPH-WIRE COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,055, dated June 29, 1874; application filed April 29, 1874.

in the drawing annexed.

Figure 1 shows a plan and Fig. 2 an end view of thisinvention.

The same letters of reference apply to the same parts in the several figures.

A in Figs. 1 and 2 represents a sleeve, having two apertures, B and B, through which the wires G and G are passed and secured by bending the ends D and D. In the ends of r the sleeve A the chambers marked E and E are formed, into which the bent ends D and D of the wires are inserted, and effectually prevents their straightening and. pulling out.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure as such by Letters Patent, is-

A block of metal having two apertures for the passage of the wires, and provided with shouldered chambers adapted to retain the end of the wires after they are bent back upon themselves, as set forth and described.

S. M. BARBOUR. FRANK A. PAGE. Witnesses:

WILLIAM M. HENDERSON, JOHN B. DEVINE. 

